Last night I was at the first guest PR lecture at Leeds Metropolitan University. The speaker was DJ Collins, now head of Corporate Communications for Google in the UK/Benelux/Ireland, although I remember him from his AEEU days. Rather than blog…
Google’s DJ Collins to speak at Leeds Met University
Richard Bailey reports that DJ Collins – Head of Corporate Communications for Google in the UK, Ireland and Benelux – is giving a guest lecture at Leeds Metropolitan University on October 15. It will be good to meet DJ as…
Adrian Monck on Andrew Gilligan
Adrian Monck has an interesting little story about Andrew Gilligan (whose dubious journalism led to the Hutton Inquiry). Adrian says: Here is Gilligan, who gave David Kelly up to John Maples and Richard Ottaway on the Foreign Affairs Select Committee…
Andy Lark is Dell’s new VP of Global Marketing and Communications
Dell has managed a real coup in securing Andy Lark, former VP of marketing at Sun Systems, as its new VP of Global Marketing and Comms. I’ve never had the pleasure of meeting Andy, but his blog is near the…
First thoughts on the O2 Cocoon
Today I received my shiny new O2 Cocoon mobile. It comes courtesy of Peter Kwong at VCCP, O2′s advertising agency and is mine to keep even if I decide not to review it (which would very mean of me so…
Microsoft is encouraging piracy
I’m convinced that Microsoft UK is doing its utmost to encourage small businesses to use pirate copies of Microsoft Office 2007. Why else would they make it so difficult to buy legitimate licences? All I want to know is how…
Stupid, lazy PR people, bloggers and media databases
Tom Coates of the excellent plasticbag.org blog has quite rightly complained about the frequent incompetent pitches he gets from PR firms. Tom thinks the reason is because Stephen Davies included him in his list of the Top 100 UK Blogs….
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